Diagnosis of chronic ectopic gestation by hysterosalpingography.

Abdom Imaging

Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, 171 Ashley Avenue, Charleston, SC 29425-2266, USA.

Published: March 1999

Pelvic ultrasound and human chorionic gonadotropin assays are currently the standard methodology to detect tubal pregnancy. We report a case of infertility investigated by hysterosalpingography in which a clinically unsuspected chronic tubal pregnancy was identified with the predisposing factor of bilateral salpingitis isthmica nodosa. The radiographic findings of this very rare cause of tubal filling defect are shown.

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